Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - Apr 25 2024 06:00 (EDT)
This is AP News. I'm Rita Folle. Should Donald Trump be immune from prosecution for actions he took while he was president? The Supreme Court hears arguments on that question today. Mark Sherman covers the Supreme Court for the AP. The court is going to take up whether the former president can even be prosecuted for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden. The AP's Mark Sherman. Meanwhile, Donald Trump will be back in a New York City courtroom as his hush money trial resumes this morning. And Arizona grand jury has indicted former President Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and 16 others in an election interference case related to the 2020 presidential vote. The AP's Lisa Dwyer says there's more to this. 11 Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring that Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in Arizona in the 2020 presidential election have been charged with conspiracy, fraud, and forgery. Those 11 people who had been nominated to be Arizona's Republican electors met in Phoenix on December 14, 2020 to sign a certificate saying that they were duly elected and qualified electors and claimed that Trump had carried the state. Biden won Arizona by more than 10,000 votes. I'm Lisa Dwyer. Police arrested some pro Palestinian student protesters at the University of Southern California last night. Demonstrations against the Israel Hamas War have been continuing on campuses across the country. It's unlikely that Israel would agree to this, but a top Hamas official is telling the AP that Hamas would be willing to agree to a truce and become a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established. Norway says it had to close the airspace over part of its country for several hours this morning because of a technical problem. This is AP news. To outer space now, Russia vetoed a United Nations resolution calling for the prevention of a dangerous nuclear arms race in space. The resolution would have called for all countries not to develop or deploy nuclear arms or other weapons of mass destruction in space. The U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield is scratching her head. President Putin himself has said publicly that Russia has no intention of deploying nuclear weapons in space. Russian Ambassador Vasilina Benzia dismissed the resolution. He says the council is once again being involved in a dirty spectacle prepared by the U.S. and Japan. This is a cynical ploy. He also said it didn't go far enough in banning all types of weapons in space. Thomas Greenfield says the veto begs the question, why? What could you possibly be hiding? China abstained from voting. I'm Ed Donahue. And I'm Rita Foley, AP news. Wilson, you said the game-winning email at the buzzer, avoiding a 455 meeting on everyone's calendar. How did you do it? I got a huge assist from Grammarly, an AI writing partner that helped me make my point. 96% of Grammarly users say that it helps them craft more impactful writing. Would you agree? Grammarly helped adjust my tone to navigate tough work conversations. And it works everywhere I write, so I can quickly communicate effectively. Your teammate used Grammarly to summarize an important document, making a three-pointer. How did he do it? You made an incredible slam dunk to end the game. The meeting was canceled, and your team will go home champions. Go to Grammarly.com/podcast to download it for free. That's Grammarly.com/podcast. Easier said, done.